Yesterday, I got this off of the Internet, so it has to be true. I wonder if you could even fill half a page with today’s
Hollywood swells who served in the military
service?
Sterling Hayden,
US Marines and
OSS. Smuggled guns into
Yugoslavia and parachuted into
Croatia.
James Stewart, US Army Air Corps. Bomber pilot who rose to the rank
of General.
Ernest Borgnine, US Navy. Gunners Mate 1c, destroyer USS
Lamberton.
Ed McMahon, US Marines. Fighter Pilot. (Flew OE-1 Bird Dogs over
Korea
as well.)
Telly Savalas, US Army.
Walter Matthau, US Army Air Corps., B-24 Radioman/Gunner and
cryptographer.
Steve Forrest, US Army. Wounded, Battle of the Bulge.
Jonathan Winters, USMC. Battleship USS Wisconsin and
Carrier USS Bon Homme Richard. Anti-aircraft gunner, Battle of Okinawa.
Paul Newman, US Navy Rear seat gunner/radsioman, torpedo bombers
of USS Bunker Hill.
Kirk Douglas, US Navy. Sub-chaser in the Pacific. Wounded in action
and medically discharged.
Robert Mitchum, US Army.
Dale Robertson, US Army. Tank Commander in North
Africa under Patton. Wounded twice. Battlefield Commission.
Henry Fonda, US Navy. Destroyer USS Satterlee.
John Carroll, US Army Air Corps. Pilot in North
Africa. Broke his back in a crash.
Lee Marvin, US Marines. Sniper. Wounded in action on
Saipan. Buried in
Arlington National
Cemetery, Sec. 7A next to
Greg Boyington and Joe Louis.
Art Carney, US Army. Wounded on Normandy beach, D-Day. Limped for the rest
of his life.
Wayne Morris, US Navy fighter pilot, USS Essex. Downed seven
Japanese fighters.
Rod Steiger, US Navy. Was aboard one of the ships that launched the
Doolittle Raid.
Tony Curtis, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay
for the surrender of Japan.
Larry Storch, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus with Tony
Curtis.
Forrest Tucker, US Army. Enlisted as a private, rose to Lieutenant.
Robert Montgomery, US Navy.
George Kennedy, US Army. Enlisted after Pearl
Harbor, stayed in sixteen years.
Mickey Rooney, US Army under Patton. Bronze Star(awarded for
entertaining troops in a combat zone.)
Denver Pyle, US Navy. Wounded in the Battle
of Guadalcanal. Medically discharged.
Burgess Meredith, US Army Air Corps.
DeForest Kelley, US Army Air Corps.
Robert Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Officer.
Neville Brand,
US Army,
Europe.
Was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Tyrone Power, US Marines. Transport pilot in the Pacific Theater.
Charlton Heston,
US Army Air
Corps. Radio operator and aerial gunner on a B-25,
Aleutians.
Danny Aiello, US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served
three years.
James Arness, US Army. As an infantryman, he was severely wounded at
Anzio, Italy.
Efram Zimbalist, Jr., US Army. Purple Heart for a severe wound
received at
Huertgen
Forest.
Mickey Spillane, US Army Air Corps, Fighter Pilot and later
Instructor Pilot.
Rod Serling. US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He
jumped at Tagaytay in the
Philippines
and was later wounded in
Manila.
Gene Autry,
MasterSergeant,
US Army Air
Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in
the China-Burma-India Theater.
Wiliam Holden,
US Army Air
Corps.
Alan Hale Jr, US Coast Guard.
Harry Dean Stanton, US Navy.
Battle
of
Okinawa.
Russell Johnson, US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple
Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines.
William Conrad, US Army Air Corps. Fighter Pilot.
Jack Klugman, US Army.
Frank Sutton, US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings, including
Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor.
Jackie Coogan, US Army Air Corps. Volunteered for gliders and flew
troops and materials into Burma
behind enemy lines.
Tom Bosley, US Navy.
Claude Akins, US Army. Signal Corps.,
Burma and the Philippines.
Chuck Connors, US Army. Tank-warfare instructor.
Harry Carey Jr., US Navy.
Mel Brooks, US Army. Combat Engineer. Saw action in the Battle of the Bulge.
Robert Altman, US Army Air Corps. B-24 Co-Pilot.
Pat Hingle, US Navy. Destroyer USS Marshall
Fred Gwynne, US Navy. Radioman.
Karl Malden, US Army Air Corps. 8th Air Force, NCO.
Earl Holliman, US Navy. Lied about his age to enlist. Discharged
after a year when the Navy found out.
Rock Hudson, US Navy. Aircraft mechanic, the Philippines.
Harvey Korman, US Navy.
Aldo Ray, US
Navy. UDT frogman,
Okinawa.
Don Knotts, US Army, Pacific Theater.
Don Rickles, US Navy aboard USS Cyrene.
Harry Dean Stanton, US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the
Battle of
Okinawa.
Robert Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Instructor.
Soupy Sales, US Navy. Served on USS Randall in the South Pacific.
Lee Van Cleef, US Navy. Served aboard a sub chaser then a mine
sweeper.
Clifton James, US Army, South Pacific. Was awarded the Silver Star,
Bronze Star, and Purple Heart.
Ted Knight,
US Army, Combat
Engineers.
Jack Warden, US Navy, 1938-1942, then US Army, 1942-1945.
101st Airborne Division.
Don Adams, US Marines. Wounded on
Guadalcanal,
then served as a Drill Instructor.
James Gregory, US Navy and US Marines.
Brian Keith, US Marines. Radioman/Gunner in Dauntless dive-bombers.
Fess Parker, US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for
being too tall, joined Marines as a radio operator.
Charles Durning,
US Army. Landed
at
Normandy
on D-Day. Shot multiple times. Awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star and
three Purple Hearts. Survived Malmedy Massacre.
Raymond Burr, US Navy. Shot in the stomach on Okinawa
and medically discharged.
Hugh O'Brian, US Marines.
Robert Ryan, US Marines.
Eddie Albert, US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with Combat V for saving
several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the
invasion of Tarawa.
Cark Gable, US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe.
Charles Bronson, US Army Air Corps. B-29 gunner, wounded in action.
Peter Graves, US Army Air Corps.
Buddy Hackett, US Army anti-aircraft gunner.
Victor Mature, US Coast Guard.
Jack Palance, US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a
burning B-24 bomber.
Robert Preston, US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer
Cesar Romero, US Coast Guard. Participated
in the invasions of Tinian and
Saipan on the
assault transport USS Cavalier.
Norman Fell, US Army Air Corps., Tail Gunner, Pacific Theater.
Jason Robards, US Navy. was aboard heavy cruiser USS Northampton when
it was sunk off Guadalcanal. Also served on
the USS Nashville during the invasion of the Philippines,
surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.
Steve Reeves, US
Army,
Philippines.
Dennis Weaver, US Navy. Pilot.
Robert Taylor, US Navy. Instructor Pilot.
Randolph Scott, Tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected due
to injuries sustained in US Army, World War 1.
Ronald Reagan, US Army. Was a 2nd Lt. in the Cavalry Reserves before
the war. His poor eyesight kept him from being sent overseas with his unit when
war came so he transferred to the Army Air Corps Public Relations Unit where he
served for the duration.
John Wayne, Declared "4F medically unfit" due to
pre-existing injuries, he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army,
Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets honorable mention.
And of course we have
Audie Murphy,
America's most-decorated soldier, who became a
Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that
included his being awarded the Medal of Honor
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